Yes, I have seen Yarvin’s name crop up in a few articles recently. He thinks Trump is not killing democracy quickly enough and if MAGA loses the Senate  it will herald the end of the Trump administration which will “wither and ev…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
‘World-first’ vaccine designed by artificial intelligence.

That’s so cool! I visualized a way to explain fairly simply how AI can do this, treating DNA/RNA just like another language.

1) Via sheer computation, an LLM learns and documents patterns in a language, and can then predict which new patterns can be des…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Arian Playing Cards are great. Aryan ID Cards are not. Must always be bigger than the enemies of science, even if they don’t want to return the favor.

Correction and benevolence appreciated.

I lost sleep again, getting wind of even more horrible destruction in their cards by Thanksgiving or so.

I got called into work last weekend to solve an emergency in a hospital IT system. Luckily it was a holiday weekend so I managed to get systems up and running again, 2 hours before the first scheduled operation.

As Looksmaxxing…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Polititains with the power to endanger the health of their citizens should be the ultimate Null Set. Getting them out of office is the first aid and keeping them out of office is the prophylactic.

By the way. I made The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Thread for entertainment and leisure, so replies can be at leisure as…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
And carcinogenity is discovered by tests on rodents that notoriously don’t extrapolate well to humans.

Wouldn’t this be a great period in USA to run tests on the most anti-science politicians?

God — n. A hypothesis invented to explain the unknown, then promoted to a tenant who refuses to pay rent or leave.

Faith — n. The art of holding a belief so tightly that facts bruise their knuckles trying to get in.

Prayer — n. A one-way telephone call to an invis…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Perplexity has a misapplied word. Less. Should have been least. Does it simply copy paste?

The only place I see “less”, at least in Reg’s post, is in the word “tenseless”.

jakelafort wrote:
The free will and compatibilism was not very deep or convincing.

I admit to not being able to fathom the whole block universe concept, much…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Highly recommended.w

Here is my question….

Hello, this is my first question here. Can you explain why the human concept of “time flow” is just an evolved survival trait as time is “only” a spacetime coordinate. Everything is…[Read more]

I like how it easily creates PDFs for any session. The PDFs (and other…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Presumably, the ionization and/or Carbon and/or Hydrophobic additives keep the Sodium from exploding, correct?

Yes, his explanation seems plausible to me.

I did some research on AI and learned that the statistics on dangerous incidents is as comprehensive as I expected, plus there’s a confounding delay of damage caused…[Read more]

Advancements and technical explanation (17-1/2 minute minus 70 second ad):

TheEncogitationer wrote:
It all revolves around Trump in some way or another, since it is his world. /Sarcasm

Maybe that’s what Sleepy Don is dreaming about. /smh

I don’t take the closed eyes as a problem as seriously as many do. The poor guy stays up until the wee hours on social media for us.

I am still trolling for fighter jet video…[Read more]

A person has dignity, legal protection, bodily safety, freedom of conscience, and freedom of expression. A belief has no skin to bruise, no liberty to imprison, no mouth to silence, and no claim to immunity from scrutiny.

You have rights; your beliefs do not.

Religious freedom is a subset of freedom of conscience. A healthy separation of church and state is key to ensuring those freedoms.

The dark and dangerous world of…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
But that doesn’t make for lines or melodies you remember and hum or sing while in the shower, folding laundry, or preparing a meal.

Well, this “you” (i.e. I) like it, and it gave me an earworm. I just now looked for a reaction with a translation, and the first one I found is still new… only 72 comments so far, and if you feel s…[Read more]

We have been becoming more and more visible via electronic mechanisms over the years, and eventually we will have to learn to live with this. Tin foil hats probably won’t help. So it’s futile to knee jerk against this kind of usage of WiFi, because it’s coming. Writing laws prohibiting things don’t act…[Read more]

What I’m pushing back on is the physics habit of treating “fundamental” as meaning “smallest,” “indivisible,” or “basic ingredient.” I agree that something can…[Read more]

I generally try to leave personal commentary out of the main page and just publish the linked headlines. But I am in no mood for any religious bigots or theist bullshit this week. 🙂

Has the federal government used official authority, public funds, or privileged access to sponsor a Christian-nationalist religious ceremony as part of a national civic celebration?

Trump and senior officials are joining the Rededicate 250 prayer event, which p…[Read more]

Then I heard about Genesis 25: 29-34 where Esau came home exhausted and hungry after hunting. Jacob was cooking a red stew — traditionally understood as lentil stew.

Esau said “Give me some of that red stew.” Jacob replied: “Sell…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Yes, chimpanzees exhibit culture, defined as behaviors that are socially transmitted rather than genetically inherited or caused solely by ecological factors.

Don’t honeybees tell each other (reporting information) where to find newly-discovered nectar-hunting grounds, which then send other bees (behavior) to exploit…[Read more]